Pilote's unique position in a new and fast developing youth press market.

The French comic magazine Pilote hebdomadaire arrived in a weakening comics market in 1959 largely dominated by syndicated translations of American comics and comics inspired by a Catholic ethos. It tailored its content and tone to an older adolescent reader far removed from that of France's infant comic. Pilote's profile set it on a turbulent course subject to the vicissitudes and fickleness of fashion which situated i...

Portugal's vibrant comics scene originated as early as the 19th century, bringing forth brilliant individual artists, but has remained mostly unknown beyond Portugal’s borders to this day. Now a new generation employs this medium to put into question hegemonic views on the economy, politics, and society. Following the experience of the financial crisis of the past decades and its impact on social policies, access to and rules of public discourse, and civil strife, comics have questioned wha...

Sugar, Spice, and the Not So Nice offers an innovative, wide-ranging and geographically diverse book-length treatment of girlhood in comics. The various contributing authors and artists provide novel insights into established themes within comic studies, children’s comics, graphic medicine and comics by and about refugees and marginalised ethnic or cultural groups. The book enriches traditional historical, narratological and aesthetic approaches to studying girlhood in comics with practice-...

Dit rijk geïllustreerde boek geeft een pregnant beeld van het grootse romanproject 'De onzekeren', waar de schrijver E. du Perron (1899-1940) in de jaren voor zijn vroege dood aan werkte. Voor deze uitgave zijn de ontwerpteksten van Du Perron in een aannemelijke volgorde geplaatst en voorzien van een inleiding en commentaar.

Hoe oorspronkelijk is literatuur? Elke schrijver doet iets met taal die anderen al eens hebben gebruikt. En wie een boek leest, hoort altijd echo's van andere teksten. Dat fenomeen noemen we intertekstualiteit. Verbanden tussen teksten sturen onze ervaring van een tekst. Het onderzoek naar intertekstualiteit is daarom een belangrijk onderdeel van de literatuurwetenschap. Bovendien is het een begrip dat we ook gebruiken voor andere kunstvormen. En eigenlijk spreken wij ook onderling 'interteks...

Fiction has a major social impact, not least because it co-shapes the image that society has of various social groups. Drawing on a collection of 170 contemporary Dutch-language novels, Character Constellations presents a range of data-driven, statistical models to study depictions of characters in terms of gender, race, ethnicity, class, age, sexuality, and other identity categories. Incorporating the tools of network analysis, each chapter highlights an aspect of fictional social networks t...

When consulting key works on urban studies, the absence of Central and Eastern European cities is striking. Cities such as Vienna, Budapest, Prague, and Trieste, where such notable figures as Freud, Ferenczi, Kafka, and Joyce lived and worked, are rarely studied in a translocal framework, as if Central and Eastern Europe were still a blind spot of European modernity. This volume expands the scope of literary urban studies by focusing on Budapest and Hungarian small towns, offering in-depth an...